PJ Media

There certainly is a large element of wishful thinking in my optimism. The major media do not hold all the aces, however. We have some facts on our side, and we also have a powerful weapon big journalism cannot counter.

Note, please, that it has been seven years since al Dura was “killed.” Seven years! France2 never in its wildest nightmares expected this affair would have such longevity, and be so dangerous. They must be desperate to see it forgotten.

(Whatever happened to the trusty coverup? Why is stonewalling so ineffective these days? The internet!)

Of course other news outlets refuse to report on the al Dura scandal. The folks at BBC realize that this fracas in France could become an international avalanche, damaging the credibility of all the major news organizations, so they support France2 by keeping BBC’s audiences ignorant. Rational and predictable as that is, this unprincipled media solidarity cannot last, in my view. The longer the al Dura hoax remains under attack on the internet, the harder it will be for the journalistic elites to crush it with censorship.

Scandals can and do grow if good men refuse to stand down. The sheer persistence of internet-based reformers is becoming a serious problem for the media gatekeepers.

True, “…reform consists in taking a bone from a dog.” (J. J. Chapman) Some folks are brave enough and angry enough to try it…and now they have a novel means of going about it.

Yesterday’s comprehensive censorship is routinely breached today, as internet reporting on Iraq demonstrates (Yon, Totten, et. al). We CAN have freedom of the press if we turn up the pressure. Insist and persist!